Save the Children
Doctor, Emergency Health Unit--Temporary assignment (Healthcare)
Save the Children's Emergency Health Unit (EHU) is designed to enhance and expand Save the Children's life-saving work in acute emergencies, including disease outbreaks, with a focus on frontline health, nutrition and WASH programming. The EHU initiates direct health response within 72 hours of a declared emergency, creating the space for in-country response teams to focus on longer term response planning and scale-up. Responses will be based on Save the Children's core public health approach covering the biggest childhood killers, including public health outreach coupled with direct clinical care, and including both primary and secondary health.
EHU programming will increase the early impact of Save the Children responses, saving more children's lives and increasing donor confidence to raise funds for immediate and longer term work. The EHU aims to reach at least 1.5 million people directly and leverage $100m during the period of Save the Children's new strategy (2019-21).
The EHU consists of a central team, based in the UK, and standing EHU response teams that are equipped to deliver response modules. Currently, there are two types of EHU response teams: Outpatient/Primary Health Teams and In-Patient Teams. Save the Children US will be managing one Primary Health Team of 7 people, including Doctor, WASH and logistics specialists who are able to mobilize responses in-line with the outpatient modules. Each EHU Team expected to deploy at least 2-3 times per year for up to 3 months each, enabling a smooth transition to the longer term response. Team members working for the SCUS EHU team may be based globally and must be ready to deploy with the team when an emergency strikes.
The EHU Doctor will contribute to the Primary Health Team, including a cholera unit, mobile clinic or vaccination campaign, providing technical leadership for the team and direct clinical care. The EHU Doctor will contribute to country-specific emergency preparedness plans and provide support to training of the response team. During a response, this position will supervise adherence to clinical protocols and work closely with the in-country health lead, Ministry of Public Health, and health cluster, as needed.
** This position is a temporary role and only available for six months **
What You'll Be Doing (Essential Duties)
Emergency preparedness (20%)
Technical Supervision and Clinical Governance (70%)
Program implementation, monitoring and accountability (10%)
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
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